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alfredofroylan on 15 February 2010

The first Taiko is at 0.66, the sequel is at .29 combined they're at 0.95 but Namco says that the series as crossed the million mark.

The Taiko Drum Master series has topped the million sold mark on the Wii, and Namco Bandai will be celebrating. Not with a third entry in the series, but with a reissue of the first one.

Taiko Drum Master currently has two Wii installments, the original Taiko Drum Master Wii, released in December 2008, and a November 2009 sequel.

The sequel was offered solo and bundled with a drum controller. The original, presumably under the consideration that no one had a drum controller for their Wii (although the game can technically be played without the controller) was offered exclusively in bundle form.

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/02/16/taiko_drum_master_million/

So one of the games is undertracked, or maybe both.



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palancas7 on 15 February 2010

*in before "it's shipped, it's shipped" *



 

Carl on 15 February 2010

Maybe slightly undertracked...

But are those shipped numbers, or actual sold?



                            

dolemit3 on 15 February 2010
Carl2291 said:
Maybe slightly undertracked...

But are those shipped numbers, or actual sold?

If it was sold they would specify according to which tracker, Media Create, Famitsu, or Dengeki.



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hunter_alien on 15 February 2010

Exactly... and alfredo is a pretty old member, so its an odd mistake



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jarrod on 16 February 2010

Last known shipments...

Taiko Wii ~570k (as of March 31 2009)
Taiko Wii 2 ~380k (as of Dec 31 2009)



Gojimaster on 16 February 2010

I wonder why they never released this game in North America. I probably would have bought it-- it was a really fun game in the arcade. It probably could have done quite well. It seems like it might be too late to release this game now, especially with the dying down of the music game craze and the over-saturation of drum related Guitar Hero and Rock Band peripherals.



 

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jarrod on 16 February 2010
Gojimaster said:
I wonder why they never released this game in North America. I probably would have bought it-- it was a really fun game in the arcade. It probably could have done quite well. It seems like it might be too late to release this game now, especially with the dying down of the music game craze and the over-saturation of drum related Guitar Hero and Rock Band peripherals.

I think one of the DS versions would be a safer litmus test, but then Namco seems allergic to localizing DS games.

I agree the Wii game could've done well last year (especially with Mario music) but it may be too late now...



Demotruk on 16 February 2010
Gojimaster said:
I wonder why they never released this game in North America. I probably would have bought it-- it was a really fun game in the arcade. It probably could have done quite well. It seems like it might be too late to release this game now, especially with the dying down of the music game craze and the over-saturation of drum related Guitar Hero and Rock Band peripherals.

Isn't that precisely it? GH and RB were never that big in Japan, so it didn't have the competition there. The competition for music games in the West is why they wouldn't bother release it.



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Ghutto on 16 February 2010

Congrats Namco.